The TV was on Fox Movie Channel last night. After some film about the Salem witch trials, the CEO of Fox (the movie company) did a 20 minute rant on how this film was meant to be an analogy of the "witch hunt" lead by that evil monster Sen. Joe McCarthy.

It was disgusting. On and on and on about how it's a known FACT that the Senate hearings were LIES and NO COMMUNISTS WERE EVER IN HOLLYWOOD and CAREERS WERE RUINED etc etc etc.

I got news for him. Hollywood was positively STIFF with commies (and that is a FACT, since I have family connections to high-level insiders WHO WERE THERE) and almost all of the "careers that were ruined" were because the traitorous scumbags were, in fact, leftist/communist operators. They made a HUGE effort and covered up the truth, while besmirching Joe McCarthy. Why do you think they take EVERY opportunity to still trash that man?

I WILL NOT PATRONIZE ANY HOLLYWOOD CRAP. I say NO to movies and almost all of the rest of the entertainment industry. They have an agenda, folks...and a Constitutional Republic with liberty and justice for all ain't part of it!

And the fact of the matter is that McCarthy's witch hunts were just witch hunts. Even if they actually found communists in Hollywood, so what? There's nothing in the U.S. Constitution which prohibits people having communist beliefs. In fact, the First Amendment protects it, so all McCarthy did was ruin a few lives for no other reason than fear mongering.

I see the Red Scare as not much different from the "get the evil Muslims" sentiment we see today.

But The Crucible WAS meant to be an analogy of McCarthyist hysteria. Arthur Miller himself said so. We also have proof that McCarthy made that accusation up on the spot just to get reelected. You lose.

Headache, the Bourne trilogy is about a guy fighting off assassins from the US government. How is that the US as a good guy? How is that the US military winning? If you're going to call an entire country retarded, you could at least do us the courtesy of getting your facts straight.

"After some film about the Salem witch trials, the CEO of Fox (the movie company) did a 20 minute rant on how this film was meant to be an analogy of the "witch hunt" lead by that evil monster Sen. Joe McCarthy."

I'd be willing to bet it was actually meant to be an analogy of the Salem witch trials.

"I WILL NOT PATRONIZE ANY HOLLYWOOD CRAP. I say NO to movies and almost all of the rest of the entertainment industry."

Yeah, there were commies in Hollywood in the 30s-50s. Remember, Stalin was our good buddy for a while. What exactly did the Hollywood commies achieve? Nothing. The spies that actually did damage to US intelligence had nothing to do with the entertainment industry.

There were plenty of communist infiltrators and spies in the 1950s US. Whether someone was actually a communist, however, had no relation whatsoever to whether one was accused of being one by Joe McCarthy. He was making shit up to ruin lives and didn't have a shred of evidence.